Rishikesh Hirway

The idea that like you create something entirely on your own, like every single idea, all of those things have been a collaboration of some kind, even if it was unintentional between like, you know, where you grew up and what the weather was and what you read and what somebody said on the bus and that you overheard, you know, like all of that stuff.

So the idea of just bringing other people in more explicitly to shake up the things that you think, you know, and come up with something that you'd never expect.

has been really important to me.

And that's something that I hope that I can keep doing.

Thank you for collaborating with us today.

Thank you.

It's been a blast.

It has been a blast for me too.

Thank you so much.

You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.

I'm Rishikesh Hirway.

There's a Steven Soderbergh movie called The Limey, and it stars the late Terrence Stamp, the British actor.

And in the movie, there are moments where Terrence Stamp's character drifts into memory, and it goes into a flashback.

And in those flashbacks to his younger self, they cut to footage of Terrence Stamp from the 1967 film Poor Cow.

There's no weird CGI de-aging or anything.

You get to see his actual younger self.

And I just love that.

I was thinking about that recently, and it made me want to revisit this episode because Yusuf Kat Stevens kind of did a musical version of that same thing when he re-recorded his song, Father and Son.

I think it's such a fascinating way to document the actual passing of time by interacting with your younger self.

This episode came out originally in 2021, and it was a special episode of the podcast also because it was our 200th.